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Dahlias going free!

Rosie31Rosie31 Posts: 483
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Hello all, my dahlias have done really well over the last few years and I've realised that I just don't have room for them any more.  I'll be lifting them for winter in the next few weeks and will have lots of excess tubers. 

Would anyone like any?  It seems a shame to chuck them out.  I can offer (in particular) some big yellow cactus types and some big purple cactus types;  also some mid-sized ones that are a deep magenta with dark foliage; also some big pale orange/yellow shaggy ones.

I'm in south east Wales, and quite often drive up and down the M5 between Bristol and Taunton.  Happy for you to pick up from me here or rendezvous with you at a motorway junction for handover!

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    Rosie, you can get about six in a box if you post them, for 2.80, maybe people would be prepared to pay you the postage? 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • WeaveyDaveyWeaveyDavey Posts: 575

    Hi Rosie31: I'd love to take you up on an extremely kind offer of dahlia tubers. Snag is I'm in far SW Pembs and rarely touch SE Wales...(Lyn suggests using 2nd class parcel post, so I'd be happy to cover expected p&p at £2.80), [up to 2kg weight]. I'll pm you my details as bona fides and send my remittance when you respond? Hope this is possible.

  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267

    Hi, Rosie31,I'd also love to take you up on the offer and happy to pay p & p in advance. I'll pm my details.  

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    The parcel size is ...45cm X 35cm x16 cm so as long as you can find a box a bit smaller than those measurements, and the parcel weights less than 2kg, (you  can weigh it on kitchen scales) then it's only 2.80. 

     

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Rosie31Rosie31 Posts: 483

    Hi everyone, thanks for your replies!

    David and Zoomer, I've replied to your PMs and dahlias will be winging their way to you as soon as they're ready to lift.  So glad to have found good homes for them!

    Lyn, thanks for the post advice, that's good to know.

    Hee hee Tetley - nice idea!  I wonder if our local farmer would like some in the middle of his barley?

    Thanks Buddyboy, that's good advice.

    Have a great autumn, everyone....

    Rosie

     

     

     

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